didactic fiction

Harry is worried about his trip to the doctor for a checkup, so his best friend Hedgehog comes up with a way to reassure him.

On a hot day, Hedgehog and his best friend, Harry, go swimming in the pond to cool off--and when Hedgehog helps his friend overcome his fear of going underwater, they find a treasure.

Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club. A chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they each love to do but she has no idea how much the club will change everything.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

The story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him.

Unicorn and Yeti are still a little new to the friendship-thing, but they are trying hard to work out how to share the things they like to do, for instance taking turns on a swing, or sharing a sparkly rock--or combining the peaches that Unicorn likes with Yeti's ice cream to make a special treat they can share together.

A graphic novel with facts about prehistory in which funny, fierce, and socially awkward dinosaurs battle for survival while dealing with friends, parents, and everyday difficulties.

Recounts the experiences of two families--Gee, a black teenager and his mother Jade, and Noelle, a half-white, half-Hispanic teenager and her mother Lacey May--whose lives intersect when a referendum passes allowing black students to be bussed to a predominantly white North Carolina high school.

Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. After Alec d'Urberville seduces her and makes her life miserable, she meets and falls in love with Angel Clare.

"[This novel] follows the life, loves, foibles, and politics of the residents of a fictional English town set amid the social unrest during the Industrial Revolution"--Provided by publisher.